More bigger leaks (as previously suggested on this blog). This time The Bureau for Investigative Journalism helped Wikileaks work with more news organisations to ‘mediate’ the nearly 400,000 Iraq War Logs. In addition to hooking Assange & Co up with Channel 4′s Dispatches the Bureau for Investigate Journalism (TBIJ) also launched the Iraq War Logs website, with its own stories from the files, and links to original documents.

Google announced it would be putting $2 million towards news innovation in the US and $3 million internationally. In the US Google has given the Knight Foundation charge of directing the money. Internationally… we don’t know yet.

Knight launched its fifth – and final? – Knight News Challenge, with different parameters than previous competitions. This time it called for entries in four specific categories: mobile, sustainability, community, and authenticity. The Media Standards Trust was very pleased to be cited as one of Knight’s previous winners along with Spot.us, Document Cloud, and Patchwork Nation.

The future of the web – web science – talks are now available online at the Royal Society. I would highly recommend Luis von Ahn’s lecture explaining how he has used mass collective intelligence to digitise millions of books, and Manuel Castells strong defence of the web as a source of happiness

MediaBugs, an ingenious online service for capturing mistakes in news and alerting news organisations, announced it was expanding across the US (having previously been based in San Francisco). Next stop the UK?